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After high school I attended BYU, where I changed majors a few times, then served a mission to Frankfurt, Germany. There were a few of us in that mission from Timpview, like Helen Dixon and Julia Pope, who were both my companions, Kevin Pinder, Steven(?) Beus, Dell (?) Brown, Brad Garner (I know I am forgetting others). It seems like everything good that has happened to me and that I have done has been as a result of my mission--my work, my studies, my confidence, and relationships. I taught at the MTC and taught German at the Y.
I finally graduated from BYU (in German with an English major), and got married the following day to my charming husband, Scott Hurd. We moved to Japan a few days later and have since lived in Arizona (where Scott worked for Intel Corp.), Texas, Missouri, Maryland, and Virginia before returning to the DC area. We have been blessed with seven children along the way.
Scott and I both returned to school in 1999, he attending medical school in Missouri and I part time for a master's degree in Humanities. Now he is a navy doc in Preventive Medicine and I am a homemaker. Our oldest daughter is married, and we have three daughters now on missions: Lyon France, Lyon France again, and Lima Peru. We have two high school sons and the youngest daughter is 11.
Among our children we have 6 musicians and one athlete. It is so great to see them grow, to see how different they are. It has been a very good life and we are looking forward to more of adventures and fulfillment as our family grows.
